Perseverance Rover

Perseverance Finds a Strange Black-and-White Striped Rock on Mars

The hits just keep on coming from the Mars Perseverance rover. It's exploring Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, looking…

4 days ago

Ancient Rocks in Mars’ Jezero Crater Confirm Habitability

According to NASA's Perseverance rover, ancient rocks in Jezero Crater formed in the presence of water. These sedimentary rocks are…

2 months ago

Perseverance Found Some Strange Rocks. What Will They Tell Us?

NASA's Perseverance Rover has left Mount Washburn behind and arrived at its next destination, Bright Angel. It found an unusual…

4 months ago

NASA is Considering Other Ways of Getting its Mars Samples Home

In 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission…

4 months ago

Perseverance Wraps Up Over 1,000 Days on Mars. Still Going Strong

I can remember when Perseverance was launched, travelled out into the Solar System and landed on Mars in February 2021. …

5 months ago

The Ingenuity Team Downloads the Final Data from the Mars Helicopter. The Mission is Over

I really can’t believe that the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars took its maiden voyage in April 2021. On the 16th…

6 months ago

Perseverance Finds its Dream Rock

If there's a Holy Grail on Mars, it's probably a specific type of rock: A rock so important that it…

6 months ago

Grabbing Samples from the Surface of Mars

As if the Mars Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Drone were not exciting enough then the next step in this audacious…

7 months ago

Ingenuity Won’t Fly Again Because It’s Missing a Rotor Blade

Ingenuity has been the first aerial vehicle on another world. NASA announced the end of the Martian helicopter’s life at…

7 months ago

NASA is Trying to Fix a Problem With one of Perseverance's Instruments

There's a problem with the Perseverance rover. One of its instruments, the laser-shooting SHERLOC, which is mounted on the end…

8 months ago